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The Thorn in the Flesh

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128pages. poche. Poche.

50 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1961

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D.H. Lawrence

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David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.

Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature.
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January 10, 2022
J’ai trouvé la traduction bien faite ( un 10/10) , langage raffiné et subtil , ce qui est commun dans les classiques.
La troisième nouvelle est ma préférée. Elle mérite qu’on lui consacre tout un roman.
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June 21, 2022
L'occasion a fait le larron. le challenge solidaire et un petit livre publié dans la collection Folio 2€ je n'ai plus eu d'excuses, D.H Lawrence à nous deux!
Quelle agréable surprise! Les trois nouvelles que contient cet opus, publiées en 1914, appartiennent au recueil Les filles du pasteur. Trois nouvelles, trois univers différents, trois femmes, Emilie, Hilda et Elisabeth, trois destins ..
Quelle agréable surprise! L'écriture de D.H Lawrence est lumineuse, élégante. Qu'il s'agisse d'un camp d'entrainement militaire, d'une campagne anglaise aux premiers jours du printemps, de la tombée de la nuit non loin de la mine les décors surgissent en quelques lignes, les personnages, tiraillés entre conformisme et passion amoureuse, entre l'acceptation de leur vie et l'envie de se rebeller toujours et encore, sont plus vrais que vrais.
Je n'ai pas résisté à l'appel des filles du pasteur, à suivre.
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July 18, 2025
La dernière nouvelle était étonnante, j’ai réussi à m’y plonger contrairement aux deux autres. Je pense que cette écriture n’est pas faite pour moi, ou je ne suis pas encore assez mature pour comprendre la morale et le sens derrière.
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June 18, 2021
3/5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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August 17, 2021
J’ai préféré la troisième et dernière nouvelle, finalement ; mais dans l’ensemble je n’ai pas trouvé un grand intérêt à cette lecture.
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